Cultural human rights in the context of digitalization

The article examines cultural rights as an independent block of fundamental human rights. Cultural rights are analysed in the light of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The purpose of this study is to consider the need to modernise legal regulation to balance the risks associated with the use of digital technologies in the cultural sphere. The author identifies the issues arising in this area, examines in detail the various definitions of culture and, accordingly, the component of human cultural rights at different stages of society's development. The author analyses how digital technologies transform cultural human rights and what barriers appear in the implementation of cultural human rights in the conditions of digitalisation. In pursuance of the Presidential Decree on National Goals and Strategic Objectives, the passport of the National Project "Culture" has been developed, which includes three federal projects: "Cultural Environment", "Creative People", and "Digital Culture". NFT-tokens are considered as an analogue of a digital certificate, which secures the right to own a unique digital object in the cultural sphere. Classical general scientific and traditional methods of legal science are used as a methodology of the research. It is concluded that the main barriers to the realisation of human cultural rights in the conditions of digitalisation are: lack of social advertising about available digital information resources on culture; lack of access to the Internet (for example: high price for the service or geographical factor); lack of skills to use digital information resources on culture. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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